Everyone's waiting for Best Buy Co. Inc. former CEO Richard Schulze to ride in with a buyout offer to save the company he founded. But it hasn't happened yet, and now some are questioning whether it ever will.

The Wall Street Journal also picked up the Chai report — which rated Best Buy as "underperform." It doesn't add any other skeptics, but so far nobody's stepped up to challenge Chai's premise, either.

For additional (if a bit outdated) perspective, you could take a look at the MPR report "What the Best Buy Stock Price Reveals" that was posted back in August but is still featured prominently on MPR's business page in a case of either extremely canny persistence or "oh, that worked out well" happenstance. Basically the argument was that since the stock wasn't rising anywhere near as much as it should have been, given Schulze's initial hints of an offer around $22 or $24, Wall Street investors were skeptical that a deal would ever happen. And that's when the stock was trading at nearly $20.

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